Huntsville gazette., 1887-04-09
SOUTHERN GL.EANINGS,

oieu d lew days ago. de was applnted BY
President Cleveland. Already there are
four or five candidates for the Office.
A plowman on a farm near Atlanta, Ga,
q few days since, turned up Sl.10) in gold,
supposed TO have been buried during the
war.
Mr.. John Green, aged eighty four, and
one OF he oldest. if not the oldest, citizens
OF Blbo County, Ga, is said to be at the
point of death
Two prominent lawyers of Newberry,
5. e., exchanged nine shots in crowded
courtroom few days since, one Of them
being fatally wounded.
The cotton mills of the West Point (Ga.
Manufacturing Company were totally
consumed by fire few nights ago. The
loss is 100000; insurance, Sl5),0o).
The Raleigh, IN. C) Cottonseed Oil
mills and fertilizer factory were burned a
few days ago. Loss $50 900; insurance
s3o,0oO. The fire was probably accidental
The Tennessee Senate has passed bill
to require railroad companies to establish
comfortable waiting rooms at all stations
where tickets are sold. the act to take ef-
feet six months after passage.
During heavy thund er-storm which
swept over Florida, few nights ago, the
lightning set fire to storein Internachen.
little town about fifteen miles south of
Jacksonville. Before the fire was gotten
under control two of the largest stores in
the place were destroyed; also, two pri
vate residences and one office, causing 6
loss of fully $1,000.
Cattle in the Texas drought district are
reported perishing for water
A -huudred-and- two-year old woman
in Rockdale County, Ga, can threa d a
needle as easily as any one, and walks
ave miles d ~ regularly.
There is a farm one hundred miles long
and one hundred miles wide in LOUISIANA
1t cost $4,000 to fence it.
A great chicken main is arranged tc
take place at Parkersburg, Va, during
the Easter holidays. About two hund red
battles will be fought
A. NJ Smith, a lawyer of Calvert, Tex,
was foully murdesed while plowing in
his field few days ago, by some unknown
person.
A potato crop disease, called the
''bfght," has broken out in Louisiana, and
is doing great damage.
Fears are expressed in the South that
the fruit crop has been injured by recent
frosis, aud already experts are giving
varied and differing testimony in the mat
ter.
Captain c. e. Dutton, of the Geological
Survey, in studying upon the Charleston
earthquake, ascertalned that the waves
Travelled between four thousand and five
thousand meters per second.
A man with wonderful beard
has been attracting attention in
tunnels County, Tex. 1t IS alleged
that he ties it about his neck for a
muflsr, uses it as a chest-protector, and
curls up under it at night instead of using
blankets.
Mrs. John Kennedy, of Louisville, Ky,
has just been commit tied to an insane
asylum for entertaining the strange hal
lucination that her real husband and her
two children have been spirited away and
others substituted in their lead.
A fire at Columbus, Ga., a few DAYS
ago. destroyed the shoe store Of W. r.
Bedell and the clothing store of ]. K. Har-
ris e. Co. Bedell's loss is Sl1,O)o; insur-
ance, $1,000. Harris & Co.'s less Is s1S. coo;
insurance, $4,000 The dry goods store OF
J. A. K rven a. Co. was slightly damaged
ty smoke and water. Loss covered by in
surancc.
Near Beulah Miss, a few evenings
since, w. L. Lowe, a member of the Leg
islature from Bolivar County. shot Char
lie Yaman several times, from the result
of which Yaman died three hours after
ward. AS far as can be learned the diff
Guilty arose through Yaman's intimacy
with loves wife.
Betsy Cook, colored, living few mile
from Brookhavcn, Miss, went to a fiele
to work few days ago, leaving he
three small children to take care Of their
house On her return she found the house
in ashes and her three children burned to
death
Mother Sympporas, Of the Sisters Of
Lorette, was buried at Montgomery, Ala,
a few days ag,. She had been for several
years Mother Superior of the Roman Cath
olic convent there, and was greatly beloved
by the whole community. She was born
at Lorette, KY, forty five years ago, OF
parents named Warren, and dedicated
her life to the sisterhood at the age of fif-
teen.
A jury at Dlingerfeid, Tex, in the cas-
of Mrs. Culberson against the East Lin
branch of the Missouri Pacif,
for damages for killing her husband,
conduc, or on that road, brought in ver-
dict assessing the damages at S12,0O-
S. 009 for the support of herself and $1,000
each for the support of her two little chill
drcn.
Tarleton Steel, colored, killed his wife
with an axe few days ago, near Ada
Ala, in dispute. He then took he
body into the woods about mile inland.
piled brush on it and poured kerosene
over it and burned the body. Tie negro
was jailed and confesses the CRIME.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals has
overrued the petition for a hearing in the
case of John ]. Cornelison VS.. Common
wealth This is Cornelson's last resort
to evade the punishment ecreed against
him for assaulting with cowhide Judge
Richard Reid, in Mount Sterling, in May,
1884
The pro spects for the peach crop in
Kentucky are good; also for other fruits
to the extent of their culture
Fruit raisers in Louisiana are sauguine
as to the prospects for good crops. Early
vt tgetables are in excellent condition.
Reports from various portions of Mis-
sissippl give good promise for abundant
crops of all kinds Of fruits in the absence
Of future adverse conditions.
Tennessee correspondents agree On the
good prospect for the coming peach cror,
and in locations where small fruits ari
given attention large returns are looked
for. Much attention IS being paid in som